Travel Forward
KLOOK (TT220)
klook.com
WHAT WE DO: Founded in 2014, Klook is one of the world’s leading tours and activities companies. It partners directly with more than 6,000 merchants to offer more than 60,000 travel activities and services, including tickets to popular attractions, tours, local transportation services, must-eats and unique experiences. Klook attracts more than 20 million monthly visits from over 100 countries; it also has the largest Asian user base for the tours and activities industry. Klook has created solutions for partner merchants to facilitate a seamless booking experience for travellers, including setting up instant confirmation and QR code or e-voucher redemption.
WHAT’S NEW: Klook is now actively expanding its footprint into the USA and Europe, with offices in both London and Amsterdam having already been
AUTOURA (TT310A)
autoura.com
WHAT WE DO: Autoura is a platform that helps existing sightseeing companies transition to autonomous vehicle sightseeing. Within five years, the sightseeing industry will be turned upside down by a technology innovation that comes from outside the travel industry. Autonomous, or self-driving, vehicles are coming and, we claim, the industry is ill-prepared for their far-reaching impact to cities and the sightseeing experience. Autoura’s sightseeing route content platform enables routes to be created and managed and then delivered to cars, bicycles, electric scooters and autonomous vehicles (when available). The company believes autonomous vehicles will provide the bedrock for a leap in innovation for many kinds of local experiences for both tourists and local customers. It predicts that major European, North American and Asian cities will be earlier to
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adopt the platform than regional cities, rural locations or countries where transport technology is lagging. Autoura’s technology works for city experiences as well as multi-day road-trip-style breaks.
WHAT’S NEW: The Autoura platform will go live in November. Visit the stand for a preview.
WHO WE’RE HOPING TO MEET: Autoura is looking to meet influencers, content creators, locals and experts who can help them research, design and deliver the new autonomous vehicle sightseeing routes. The company also wishes to speak to businesses who own tour buses who need to transition in the coming few years.
WEX EUROPE (TT230)
wexeurope.com
WHAT WE DO: Wex Europe is a leading provider of corporate payment solutions, and it has traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Since pioneering virtual payments technology 18 years ago, it has been focused on helping clients operate easier and faster while creating lasting growth and success. The company believes virtual payments also help to reduce payment fraud. Its approach to payments is based on collaboration and partnership, putting customers first to help operate more efficiently and securely with tailored payment solutions using our unique Virtual Card Numbers (VCNs), which are supported by a trusted financial institution.
WHAT’S NEW: Six months into his new position, Wex Europe’s new managing director Anant Patel has continued to strengthen the European leadership, with Clare Murphy taking the commercial director role and Richard Pfaffli being appointed as director of relationship management. Bringing a wealth of international experience to Wex’s operations across Europe, the team is striving to optimise supplier benefits to achieve tangible business benefits. Wex has achieved strong growth, expanding into new markets such as Germany and France, with recent client wins in both regions.
WHO WE’RE HOPING TO MEET: As a first-time distributor at WTM London, Wex looks forward to helping visitors rethink how payments are served, and sharing its expertise to create possibilities that drive businesses’ payments faster and more simply.
set up. The company is continuing to launch more activities in Europe and the Americas to cater to the ever-changing and diverse needs of customers, particularly from the Asian market. In August 2018, it announced it had closed $200 million in Series D funding, bringing the total financing to date to $300 million. This makes Klook the most-funded company in the tours and activities sector globally.
WHO WE’RE HOPING TO MEET: Klook looks forward to expanding and deepening its partnerships with travel service operators worldwide, as well as helping them to reach broader audiences in a more efficient way.
TRAVEL LEDGER ALLIANCE (TT310G)
travelledger.org
WHAT WE DO: Travel Ledger is an industry-run billing and settlement platform for the travel industry that promises to automate the travel purchasing process along the entire distribution chain. Travel Ledger will replace the current billing, reconciliation and settlement process to make it fast, easy and inexpensive to transact non-airline provided travel services. It is built using blockchain and smart contract technology, making its distribution quick and cost-effective.
WHAT’S NEW: The company has completed the first phase of development and presented a first version of its functioning user interface and version 0.1 of the
API. It has recently announced its advisory board of industry experts and is currently organising its next round of funding in order to bring the platform into production in 2019.
WHO WE’RE HOPING TO MEET: Travel Ledger wants to meet any B2B buyers and sellers of travel products who want to get involved in this development phase or want to become members of the consortia once the platform is launched. Membership cost will be nominal, but open exclusively to companies operating within the travel industry. Travel Ledger also wants to meet other travel technology companies interested in integrating with the platform or who want to develop their own applications on the platform. The company will have incentives and revenue opportunities for such technology companies, which is an extra reason to visit its stand.
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